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Facebook has had a very busy summer.
From preparing the groundwork for a video ad service, to pushing the Facebook hashtag, the social juggernaut has been trying to convince advertisers and investors that the platform is a hotbed of viral activity, not just the world's biggest directory of human beings.
To Facebook's credit, it seems to be winning the battle on Wall Street, with the stock trading over 30% above its flotation price after a disastrous IPO.
However, one battle it will not win is the social television battle against Twitter.
We have talked about the coming age of Twittervision in these pages before. The self-dubbed 'Global Town Square' is well known for being the place to be when news is breaking or when events are taking place.
With users craving real-time interactions and advertisers waiting in the wings to cash in on the opportunities, Facebook made bold moves to enter the fray. As documented in Econsultancy's Facebook Marketing Trends Briefing, June saw Facebook launch hashtags, making it easier for users to have contextual conversations.
On top of that, Facebook also released two APIs to selected media outlets, giving them access to demographic data from the entire Facebook population and specific posts from public profiles based on keyword searches.
It also chose to show off just how much people talk about TV on Facebook:
However, even those lofty numbers are not enough to take on Twitter in the social TV battles. Here is why…
1. Branded content dominates Facebook contextual searches
For a platform that wants users to get involved in broader conversations, it doesn't show a lot of user content. A search for #XFactor on Facebook at the beginning of last Sunday's show gave me this:
Why I got results for X Factor US, only Facebook knows. Clearly this is all branded content.
On the other hand, when searching for #XFactor on Twitter, I got this:
The branded nature of the most prominent Facebook posts when searching for terms means I'm really looking at mini PR statements. But in the heat of my favourite TV show, I'm not looking for PR, I'm looking for reactions, things I can agree and disagree with.
As a user, that is more than likely going to come from Twitter.
2. Hashtags don't work on Facebook
The early days of Facebook hashtags have not produced promising results either. Instead of improving the viral reach of posts, Facebook posts with hashtags have actually reached less users.
Research by EdgeRank Checker discussed in Econsultancy's Facebook Marketing Trends briefing show that not only do the hashtags create no additional exposure; they have a negative effect on virality.
It is not initially clear why this is this is the case. EdgeRank Checker suggests the cause for this is due to only being able to use data from public (brand) pages, who misuse hashtags by mainly using them for promotional material.
Whether this is the case or not, the fact that a post on Facebook is less likely to be seen by others if it contains a hashtag is worrying for a platform attempting to join together segregated conversations.
3. Facebook needs more speed
As the evening went on, I signed back on to Facebook to see what people had to say about X Factor. Here is what Facebook showed me at 20:13 when I searched for #XFactor after a Gary Barlow cliffhanger:
And here are the search results after the judges had picked their final six at 20:56:
The only thing that has changed on the Facebook feed is the number of likes the X Factor USA post received.
The very premise of contextual conversation is that the platform facilitates discussion among users around a TV show, event or anything else.
At this stage, it doesn't appear Facebook do this. They may have several people talking about the same thing at the same time, but they are not part of a conversation. They are merely talking to the friends they have permitted to enter their digital diary.
So what does Facebook need to do to truly get into the social conversation? Or is Facebook's approach to using hashtags sufficient for maximising their commerical opportunities? Let me know what you think in the comments.
For more Facebook insights and trends, download a free copy of Econsultancy's Facebook Marketing Trends Briefing.
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Facebook is really good at cluttering and having no clear structure when you search for anything. You're a bit limited on Twitter, but it's realtime and the users steer the conversations. At least in Sweden, for now, hashtags aren't used. IMHO Facebook or Google+ doesn't stand a chance against Twitter when it comes to social TV. Their platforms isn't made for fast, small updates.
One of the advantages I can see Facebook has over Twitter is that you can order your news feed by most popular conversations or most recent posts. So surely there's something they can do with that, along with hashtags, to allow you to follow and interact better with the conversations your friends are talking about at that moment. There must be a way to improve the ability to have a conversation even with private pages?
Twitter and Facebook are two very different environments and hence the way we engage in those environments while watching TV differs.
Twitter is like attending a cocktail party with a whole lot of people you don't know. You naturally gravitate towards a group of people who are talking about a show you love, The X Factor for example. There is a good chance you don't know any of these people, but you enjoy the conversation with these strangers.
Facebook however is like a house party where you get together with your friends to watch a show together. It is much smaller group, but the engagement is more intimate.
Unfortunately you don't seem to understand how Facebook works. Most people don't use #tags on Facebook, because they don't need to, and Facebook has not told them that they can, nor suggested that they should.
If you want to find conversations about The X-Factor, just go to The X Factor page (or any of the fan pages or pages for the artists on it) and read the posts by fans, and comments on the posts by the page, or just click the comments button when an official post comes up in the search result (327 comments on that first screen grab!).
If you want to see your friends reactions, just read your feed (latest posts first) - you won't need to filter these as there won't be a huge number of posts by your friends and the brands/people that you are following within the last hour.
You got X-Factor (USA) posts coming up on your search because you specifically searched for '#xfactor', and that's only being used by the USA page (not the UK one). Why don't you do what an average Facebook user would do, and just type in 'x factor', instead of trying to make a Twitter convention work on a different platform?!
"Research by EdgeRank Checker discussed in Econsultancy's Facebook Marketing Trends briefing show that not only do the hashtags create no additional exposure; they have a negative effect on virality."
This is such a naive and unfair conclusion to reach. The virality of a post depends on many things, not least the actual content of the post. It could just be that the bigger, most viral brands on Facebook, aren't using #tags on Facebook at all or as much as the less viral ones.
I think post this announcement: http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2300217/Facebook-Users-Can-No-Longer-Remain-Anonymous-in-Search
It's time to try again.
I also think this was an insightful and well done piece Bola!
great article, I think hashtags where not supposed to be as part of the comments box just like twitter and trying to match a micro blogging channel approach is not correct.
FB should have added a separate Text box "hashtags box" with a CTA where comments and hashtags wouldn't contradict or eat each other but they would compliment each others' exposure


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- 1 Overview
- 2 Description
- 3 Storage Mechanism Internal Structure.
- 4 Cluster configuration
- 5 Technical aspects for designing the Binary Storage Service
- 6 UML Class Diagram
Design a service to easy store / access binary data documents.
Client components will access the Binary Storage Service for persisting binary data (attachments) into the binary storage. The binary data shall be simply identified by a unique key / identifier as a String data type. No directly client component access to the persistence storage shall be available; the persistence storage will be only accessible through the Binary Storage Service API which provides the needed CRUD operations.
Backend mechanism of Binary Storage shall be completely transparent to the client, thus user shall have the opportunity to setup basic configuration of the service. Binary Storage shall be able to determine and use default/optimistic configuration in case no one is specified by the user.
Storage Mechanism Internal Structure.
Binary Storage will depend on the amount of data it needs to persist/manage. Because of this the persistence storage of service shall be able to deal with fallowing persistence structures/techniques, depending on service configuration:
- A. File System
- I. Local hard drive
- 1. Flat structure
- 2. Hierarchical structure
- II. Distributed file system (SFTP, FTP)
- 1. Flat structure
- 2. Hierarchical structure
- I. Local hard drive
- B. Object DataBase
One of the persistence options will be used by the Binary Storage Service at the running time. Internally, the DAO & DAO Factory concept provides the appropriate/configured persistence option implementation to the Binary Storage Service independently. User can shall configure its appropriate persistence option that satisfies his/her needs.
A. File System
Binary Storage Service saves the binary data directly in the file system.
I. Local hard drive
The service saves data in the local drive using a predefined persistence storage location - binary.storage.root.path. Under this root path Binary Storage will create its files system structures flat or hierarchical, depending on the configuration.
1. Flat structure
The file system - flat structure configuration shall be used in case of small amount of data, since all the attachments will be saved in the same path location. For huge amount of data the systems becomes very slow, time responding increases significantly.
This option shall only be used for debugging purpose, since it offers an easy way for locating a specific persisted attachment.
In case of no initial configuration is provided by the user, the file system - flat structure option shall not be used as default.
2. Hierarchical structure
Through the hierarchical file system persistence, Binary Storage Service will manage by itself a configurable & hierarchically & internal structure under the configured persistence storage root path. This is to be considered the default configuration. Following parameters are available for configuring the hierarchical structure:
- q - Maximum number of subfolders per folder
- r - Maximum number of persisted attachments per folder
The hierarchical (tree) structure is being created during the the storage of new data (the initial number of binary data which is going to be persisted is unknown for Binary Storage Service).
Hierarchical structure nomenclature. Test scenario
Fallowing picture outlines the hierarchic overview, file system nomenclature and binary data distribution (persistence) inside the tree structure. In the illustrated sample , our test scenario uses a total number of attachments to be stored 360. The configuration values are :
q = 3 (maximum 3 subfolders per folder in the hierarchy) r = 10 (maximum 10 files stored in a folder inside of the hierarchic structure) t = 360 (total number of attachments-files to be stored)
As it is outlined in the picture, the total number of subfolders from hierarchy structure represents a geometric progression (in mathematics also known as a geometric sequence), where each term (number of folders from the same level of the hierarchy) after the first is found by multiplying the previous one by a fixed non-zero number called the common ratio. The common ration identifies with maximum number of sub-folders per folder - q.
For a optimistic hierarchy, it is possible to determine fallowing parameters in order to configure the hierarchy as user expects:
- total number of folders from structure (t/r) - 36
- total number of subfolder at each level from the structure - Bn formula. (b1= 1 folder at the first level; b2=3 folders at the second level; b3=9 folders at the third level; b4=23 folders at the fourth level)
- total number of subfolders from the hierarchy (in full mode) - Sn formula
- total number of subfolders from the deepest level : 23 folders, Bn' = Bn - (Sn - t/r). (Bn=27; Sn=40; t/r=36)
- hierarchy level - n=4 (logarithmical function)
Binary Storage Service has to map each attachment identifier to the path where the binary data is being stored. The mappings needs to be persisted so they can be reused if the system gets restarted.
An external manipulation of persistence storage structure (like deleting data form inside of it) will break the mappings. This is considered an exceptional case and it is not in the Binary Storage Service scope.
Fallowing table provides an overview of the hierarchical structure based on configured parameters:
|t (number of attachments)
|q (max number of subfolders in folder)
|r (max number of att.in folder)
|TF (number of folders)
|n (hierarchical level)
|Sn (full mode hierarchy)
|M (missing subfolders in deepest level)
II. Distributed file system (SFTP, FTP)
The purpose of distributed file system option is to allow storing/accessing of binary data into network storage devices transparently through SFTP, FTP. User needs to provide configuration data related to distributed systems (host, user, password). It is considered that user has write access to the distributed system at the configured persistence location path.
1. Flat structure
It has the same characteristics like in the local flat configuration, but it is applied on the persistence location from the distributed system.
2. Hierarchical structure
It has the same characteristics like in the local hierarchic configuration, but it is applied on the persistence location from the distributed system.
B. Object DataBase
Binary Storage Service will use existing Open Source Object Database Engine to store the binary data. It is not Binary Storage Service responsibility to directly access the stored data; the service will store/fetch the data by using the exposed API.
Open Source Database Engines :
- db4o - http://www.db4objects.com - GNU General Public License (GPL)
- NeoDatis ODB - http://www.neodatis.org/ - GNU General Public License (GPL)
- Perst - http://www.mcobject.com/perst/ - GNU General Public License (GPL)
- Neo4j - http://www.neo4j.org - GNU General Public License (GPL)
- JODB - http://www.java-objects-database.com - GNU General Public License (GPL)
- Oracle Berkeley DB
- Berkeley DB Java Edition
Cluster configuration
Binary Storage Service must offer fallowing cluster configurations:
- Client components clustering (like blackboard service) - where the client services run in cluster and all the cluster nodes needs to share the same data (which means, all the nodes have to share the same binary persistence storage). This will be only possible by configuring the Binary Storage Service to use the distributed file system option or object database option (where the Object Database Engine is capable to be remotely accessed - not an embedded designed database which does not allow directly remote connections);
- Persistence storage clustering - where binary data will be stored in more than one nodes.
The two cluster options shall be available even configuring both at the same time, or only one, or non of them.
Technical aspects for designing the Binary Storage Service
- Binary data compressing and encryption shall be available via configuration
- The Apache Commons Virtual File System (Commons VFS) framework is to be used for accessing the file system.
- Binary storage shall internally manage its persistence hierarchy.
- The binary service shall be designed as a single bundle / service.
- Exception handling mechanism should treat all internal binary storage (logical and unexpected) errors and wrap the exceptions into a "binary storage exception" that makes sense for the Blackboard service
- Resources synchronization shall be done at the lowest possible level
- Binary Storage shall manage its configuration internally (highly couple classes are difficult to maintain and hard to understand in isolation – they tend to introduce internal dependencies). Decouple binary storage configuration from blackboard service
- The Binary Storage Service API shall stay as simple as possible
void storeRecordAttachment(String attachmentId, InputStream attachmentStream) void storeRecordAttachment(String attachmentId, byte[] attachmentStream) byte[] fetchRecordAttachmentAsByte(String attachmentId) InputStream fetchRecordAttachmentAsStream(String attachmentId) void removeRecordAttachment(String attachmentId) int fetchRecordAttachmentSize(String attachmentId)


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Several weeks ago, I had a chance to speak by phone with the folks of S3, a multinational IP vendor and engineering company headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. Darren Hobbs, Director of Product Strategy for the Silicon Business Unit, was on the call, as was Dermot Barry, Vice President of the Silicon Business Unit.
Our conversation centered on two topics: a new ADC just released by S3, and my hypothetical design project, the Dick Tracy keychain. It was morning in California when we spoke, but closing in on dinner time in Ireland. Hobbs and Barry were patient with my questions, nonetheless.
Per Hobbs, "We want to talk today about our latest product, a high-speed ADC and one of the most efficient [in the marketplace]. This announcement has produced a lot of headlines, but we want to drill into what it all really means. The specs we are using here is performance per milliwatt. We harp on that, because it's really critical today. Typically, what's said with a launch like this is that it [processes so many bits at a particular speed], but that doesn't really indicate the performance of an ADC.
"What we're doing here is putting our necks on the line by saying instead what our efficiency is – a very, very small ADC when manufactured at 40 nanometers, just .09 square millimeters, and only consuming 6 milliwatts of power. It's efficient in the order of 31 femtojoules [10-15 joules], which means for handsets that use 802.11ac, you get very high energy efficiency."


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Marian University's College of Osteopathic Medicine (MU-COM) welcomed 162 new students during a "White Coat Ceremony" on Sunday, August 10 at the Indiana Roof Ballroom in downtown Indianapolis. The students comprise MU-COM's second class; the state's first medical school in 110 years opened its doors in August 2013.
The White Coat Ceremony is a celebration held by more than 100 medical schools nationally, marking the beginning of a student's journey to becoming a doctor. During the ceremony, students receive a white coat, the uniform traditionally worn by physicians across the U.S.
"This is a wonderful day for these students and their families," Paul Evans, D.O., dean of MU-COM, said. "It recognizes both the achievement that it took to get to this point, as well as the start of the hard work that lies ahead. These students represent the future of health care in Indiana. I think we are all in very good hands."
Dr. Evans said nearly 4,000 people applied for the 162 seats that were available to be filled. The result is a class that surpasses national averages of other osteopathic medical schools in nearly every measurable category:
There are 87 Indiana residents in MU-COM's newest class, comprising 54 percent of the class. Those students can receive $10,000 annual scholarships from the State of Indiana ($40,000 total) if they remain in Indiana after graduation and practice in a primary care field in rural or underserved areas of the state.
"There is a significant shortage of doctors in Indiana," Dr. Evans said. "It's important that the state do all it can to retain the students graduating from its medical schools to become Indiana physicians. The Indiana General Assembly deserves to be commended for its innovative approach to incentivizing Marian University students to practice in our state."
Of the 88 undergraduate colleges and universities represented in this year's MU-COM class, 26 are Indiana institutions. That includes Marian University, which will place three graduates in the class.
"We've made strategic investments in recent years in our School of Mathematics and Sciences, with the expectation that it would become a feeder for our College of Osteopathic Medicine," Marian University President Daniel J. Elsener said. "It's extremely rewarding to see that investment come to fruition. And I'm sure it's motivating for our undergraduate students to know that they too will have opportunities to get accepted into some of the best graduate and professional schools in the nation if they apply themselves during their four years at Marian University."
In total, there are students from 19 states in the class. There are also 11 international students from six foreign nations – Canada, Mexico, France, India, China and Vietnam.
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Miley Cryus' latest publicity stunt has us speechless.
The singer is one of the new faces and bodies (literally) for Marc Jacob's "Protect The Skin You're In" campaign which raises money for the New York University Skin Cancer Institute.
On Thursday, the "We Can't Stop Singer" tweeted a picture of the shirt which will be sold at Marc Jacob boutiques, with the proceeds benefiting skin cancer research.
"Ts are available at 9 Marc Jacobs boutiques including SanFran, LA, Chicago, New York, Boston & Savannah GA!," she posted along with the risque top.
If you've ever wondered what Miley looks like naked, well here ya go. The shirt features a completely nude Cyrus covering her lady bits with just her hands, and "Protect The Skin You're In" stamped across her chest.
The picture doesn't exactly scream "wear your sunscreen" to us -- but hey, it's a good way to bring awareness ... and another opportunity for the former Disney star to shed that good girl image she's been so desperately trying to separate herself from.
Your opinion is the one that counts -- what do you think of the 20-year-old's latest "charity" endeavor? Tell toofab in the comment section below, and click "Launch Gallery" above to see more of Miley's best TwitPics!


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Qualifying ended today at Infineon Raceway, with nearly all the riders improving on their times in the day's later qualifying session. While all the entrants will get to compete in the race regardless of whether or not they qualify, the two outings for Saturday gave us a preview as to what we can expect on Sunday's race. As we've mentioned before, the Zero/Agni motorcycle looked very strong with Shawn Higbee at the helm.
Also looking confident was the "flying banana" fielded by Lightning Motors. Piloted by Michael Barnes, Barney took the yellow lightning machine around the course at a pace that was just seconds off what Higbee & Co. were lapping. We know the yellow bike has a lot of power on-board, and could give Zero a run for their money if they've been sand-bagging it during the practice sessions. Finishing out the top three was Thad Wolff and his stunning Norton, which blended a little bit of old with new with his streamlined retro bike chassis. Click past the jump for photos from qualifying and a full list of results.


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Tannehill Historic Ironworks State Park has an atmosphere unlike any other. With the historic furnace, Iron and Steel museum, cotton gin, grist mill in addition to 45 other historic buildings and exhibits, it has a feel of a time when everything moved at a slower pace. Though this might not sound like a place that mountain bikers would be excited about, BUMP in cooperation with Tannehill, The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham and Alabama Department of Community Affairs have worked hard to change that. In the Tannehill State Park which includes 200 feet of elevation change,interesting topography, rock outcroppings and creeks, lays a variety of sweet trails that range from technical and rocky or smooth and fast singletrack to quaint historic doubletrack working its way through the 1500 acres of pine and hardwood forest.
In November of 2009 BUMP began construction of the single track mountain bike trail, completing the first 1.4 mile Furnace Quarry Trail. BUMP applied for a federal Recreational Trail Program grant and a Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham grant to fund the additional mileage. Through volunteer labor as well as a contracted professional trail builder, 12.4 miles of single track have been added. With the previous doubletrack loop comprised of the Iron Road, Stagecoach Road, and Slave Quarters Trail, Tannehill now boasts over 16 miles of trail.
There are two trailhead kiosks. The North Trailhead is located near Farley Field at the base of the Montevallo Stagecoach Road. The South Trailhead is beside the Collins house just behind the Iron and Steel Museum. There are Trail Maps located in the kiosks and they can also be picked up at the country store or downloaded . The trail system is made up of several different loops that are color coded on the trail map as well as the trail signage. All trails are bidirectional.
The Ironworks Loop , marked as the brown trail is made up of the historic doubletrack that include the Slave Quarters Trail, The Iron Haul Road, and the Montevallo Stagecoach Road. This trail is actually historic roads from the park's iron legacy and is 3.94 miles. The brown trail is a great beginner level loop with two good climbs.
The Furnace Quarry Trail , marked orange does not make a complete loop but connects the South Trailhead to the old Furnaces near Folsom Bridge. This is an advanced level trail with a rocky textured tread that winds up and over the ridge where the stones were quarried for construction of the Furnace.
The Pig Iron Loop , marked as the red loop is an intermediate level trail. It starts and ends near the Folsom Bridge and is 3.66 miles. Riding clockwise, the climb to the top of the ridge is 1.5 miles of winding textured singletrack. Once atop the ridge, you catch your breath along the north spur of Shades Mountain on a smooth wide trail. Once you reach the four way intersection, take a hard right and let loose on a fast smooth decent. Follow the red arrows all the way back down to Folsom Bridge. Riding counter clockwise, the trail starts off with a short steep climb to the top of the ridge. After crossing the top of the ridge, the downhill is not as steep, but has a longer steady winding decent back to Folsom Bridge with a fair share of fun switchbacks.
The Cannon Ball Loop , marked as the purple loop is intermediate level. It is a 1.57 mile fast smooth roller coaster that starts at the four way intersection on the top of the north spur of Shades Mountain. This loop connects to the green loop and gives you the option to climb back to the top of the ridge and ride it again.
The Iron Runner Loop , marked as the green loop is an intermediate level trail. It is a 3.77 mile loop with gently rolling terrain that seems to go on forever through a beautiful long leaf pine and hardwood forest. This loop in particular is equally as fun in either direction. It starts and ends at the four way intersection on the top of the north spur of Shades Mountain. It also connects to the Ironworks Loop.
The Tri-County Marker Trail , marked as the yellow trail is an intermediate level trail. This short .79 mile three way trail serves to connect the red, green and brown loops. The trail passes a monument that indicates the point where Tuscaloosa, Bibb and Jefferson Counties intersect.
The IMBA Trail , marked as the pink trail is an intermediate level trail. Built during two different International Mountain Bicycle Association Trail Care Crew Visits, this is a hand-built intermediate level trail that connects the Pig Iron Loop to the Ironworks Loop. It is 1.2 miles long.
The Dam Trail is an intermediate to advanced level trail. It has some really nice views from a short ridge top, and follows along the bank of Mud Creek. The trail passes the site of the old Williams Owens Forge. There are still remnants of the box dam in the creek that once provided air blast for the furnace powered by a water wheel. The trail connects to the Iron Works Loop, with the entrance and exit only about 30 feet from one another. It also is easily accessible from the Iron Runner Loop. The trail is only a couple miles long, but feels much longer. It will challenge your balance and slow-speed bike handling skills.
Directions to Start: From Birmingham take I-459 to exit 1and follow signs to park. From Tuscaloosa take I-59 to exit 100 and follow signs to park.
There is an admission charge, $4.00 for adults, $3.00 for seniors (ages 62 up,) $2.00 for children (ages 6 – 11), and free for children ages 5 and under.
Annual passes are available for$50.00 for adults, $30.00 for seniors (ages 62 up,) and $12.00 for children (ages 6-11).
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Designing for People with Partial Sight and Color Deficiencies by Aries Arditi, PhDDesigning for People with Partial Sight and Color Deficiencies
This page contains three basic guidelines for making effective color choices that work for nearly everyone. Following the guidelines are explanations of the three perceptual attributes of color -- hue, lightness and saturation -- as they are used by vision scientists.
How does impaired vision affect color perception?
Partial sight, aging and congenital color deficits all produce changes in perception that reduce the visual effectiveness of certain color combinations. Two colors that contrast sharply to someone with normal vision may be far less distinguishable to someone with a visual disorder. It is important to appreciate that it is the contrast of colors one against another that makes them more or less discernible rather than the individual colors themselves. Here are three simple rules for making effective color choices:
1. Exaggerate lightness differences between foreground and background colors, and avoid using colors of similar lightness adjacent to one another, even if they differ in saturation or hue.
Dont assume that the lightness you perceive will be the same as the lightness perceived by people with color deficits. You can generally assume that they will see less contrast between colors than you will. If you lighten the light colors and darken the dark colors in your design, you will increase its visual accessibility.
2. Choose dark colors with hues from the bottom half of this hue circle against light colors from the top half of the circle. Avoid contrasting light colors from the bottom half against dark colors from the top half. The orientation of this hue circle was chosen to illustrate this point.
For most people with partial sight and/or congenital color deficiencies, the lightness values of colors in the bottom half of the hue circle tend to be reduced.
3. Avoid contrasting hues from adjacent parts of the hue circle, especially if the colors do not contrast sharply in lightness.
Color deficiencies associated with partial sight and congenital deficiencies make it difficult to discriminate between colors of similar hue.
Hue, Lightness and Saturation The three perceptual attributes of color that can be envisioned as a solid.
Elizabeth Township is soliciting letters of interest from eligible citizens wishing to serve as an alternate on the Planning Commission. The Planning Commission is a five-member commission, appointed by the Board of Commissioners, responsible for short and long term planning within the Township. They review subdivision plans and rezoning requests, and make recommendations to the Board of Commissioners.They are also responsible for the overall aesthetic and visual atmosphere within the Township.
Interested parties should submit a letter of interest to Office Manager, Joelle Whiteman at the Administrative Offices located at 522 Rock Run Road, Elizabeth, PA 15037 no later than the close of business day on July 12, 2018 for consideration.
Elizabeth Township lies between the shores of the Youghiogheny and Monongahela Rivers, encompassing nearly twenty-three square miles in the southeastern section of Allegheny County. Elizabeth Township was formed from part of Rostraver Township and was originally part of the three counties of Bedford, Westmoreland, and Allegheny. This area was included in the large tract of land that was granted to the Penn family by the King of England.
In 1788 Allegheny County was formed and Elizabeth Township, named in honor of Elizabeth Bayard, wife of the founder of Elizabeth Village, was incorporated as one of its original Townships. Villages in Elizabeth Township were Boston, Greenock, Buena Vista, Industry, and Blythedale. Later the areas of Blaine Hill, Mt. Vernon, Victory, and Central were created.
Elizabeth Township is home to theGreat Allegheny PassageTrail. A trail for all seasons follows the scenic Youghiogheny River along the former Pittsburgh and Lake Erie (PLE) Railroad. The trail's gentle grade, smooth surface, isolation from motorized traffic, and inherently scenic landscape offers people of all ages and levels of physical ability magnificent settings where they can safely walk, jog, cross country ski, or bicycle. The main access areas of Boston Park, Buena Vista, and Blythedale provide parking, benches, toilets, drinking water, bike racks, visitor information, picnic pavilions and security lighting. River access and historic interpretation signs are provided at key points along the trail. For more information and maps, please visit: www.atatrail.org
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The Cross In The Closet
"The Cross in the Closet" by Timothy Kurek is a cross between Dan Millman's "Way of the Peaceful Warrior" and "The Matrix." Spurred by his self-disgust to his reaction to one of his friends coming out to him, Kurek, a straight, bigoted, conservative Christian, assumed the life of a gay man for one year to rid himself of his homophobia. Kurek took the red pill, went down the rabbit hole and had his reality turned inside out.
This book is a personal account of the radical path Kurek took to discover himself and his relationship with God. At its core, it's the story of a human being who learns how to see the world through his heart. It's about Kurek's journey into learning how to see people for who they are outside of their labels, and in the process, he deconstructs the labels that he used to define himself and his conservative religious upbringing.
Whether you are religious or not, LGBT or not, "The Cross in the Closet" moves you to question how you see yourself and others, how you forgive and hold onto anger, how you heal and how you choose to open or close your heart to yourself and the people in your life. Through Kurek, we see a raw transformation of how he peeled back his fears, insecurities and ignorance through opening himself up to vulnerability, curiosity and love.
"The Cross in the Closet" is filled with noticeable grammar and editing problems, but the power of the content and Kurek's storytelling abilities more than make up for it.
This book is a small glimpse into the diversity of LGBT culture and people. No two people experience something the same, and Kurek's experience of taking on the label of gay doesn't fully portray the experiences of the people or the subcultures that make up the entire queer spectrum. Nonetheless, this book can help a lot of people to better understand the stigma and injustice that LGBT people face, and it can help people to see LGBT individuals as we are, as human beings with an identity that is fuller than our sexual orientation or gender identity. I would take this book for what it is, one straight person's experience of assimilating into LGBT culture, taking on the label of gay.
This book offers us the experience of witnessing an avid anti-gay advocate transform into a powerful ally. For anybody who is on the fence about LGBT people, for family and friends of LGBT people, for existing allies, for people who struggle with the coexistence of their or someone else's sexual identity and their faith, for the LGBT community, I recommend this book.
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Machine learning can pinpoint rodent species that harbor diseases and geographic hotspots vulnerable to new parasites and pathogens. So reports a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences led by Barbara A. Han, a disease ecologist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies.
This spring, April showers made favorable conditions for amphibians to display their singing skills in the flooded lowland fields at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies. Eastern American toads (Anaxyrus americanus) were major contributors to the evening chorus, which was at times deafening.
The month of May brings many things, among them Mother's Day, tulips, and Lyme Disease Awareness campaigns. But according to Dr. Richard S. Ostfeld, a disease ecologist at Cary, if we want to get a leg up on tick-borne illness we need to become vigilant earlier in the season.
The Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies is pleased to announce that senior scientist Dr. Stuart E.G. Findlay has received the prestigious National Wetlands Award from the Environmental Law Institute (ELI).
Think you're safe from ticks because the harsh winter froze them or because you haven't been trekking through the woods? Think again.
Data Cary's Rick Ostfeld and his team have collected since the 1990s reveals a marked change in the behavior of black-legged ticks -- they are arriving on the scene earlier than ever in the spring. They're also showing up farther to the north, and at higher elevations, than they have in the past.
Ice out at last! The East Branch of the Wappinger Creek, which runs through the Cary Institute's property, remained blanketed under a thick layer of ice and snow most of winter. Not until mid-March did the frozen cover begin to melt away faster than it reformed.
Serving as inadvertent innkeepers for opossums may turn out to be good for your health. Scientists at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, New York, have learned that opossums act like little vacuum cleaners when it comes to ticks, including those that can spread debilitating Lyme disease to humans and other animals.
Author and gardener Margaret Roach gets a lesson in phenology from Victoria Kelly, Environmental Monitoring Program Manager at the Cary Institute. Environmental Monitoring is a longterm program at Cary, begun in the 1980s and designed specifically to monitor climate—and the air, precipitation and water chemistry.
For nearly 20 years, Gary Lovett has kept a journal with notes about a variety of natural events taking place in his backyard in southeastern New York, including the date that spring peepers begin peeping in his vernal pool each year.
Say hello to the opossum, the American marsupial with a pointy nose and prehensile tail that dines on ticks like a vacuum dines on dust.
When cities and states apply tons of it to roads like they did this winter, drinking water supplies can be easily contaminated.
Salt, it makes roads safe in the winter, but is it safe for the environment? "In small quantities it would be safe, but not in large quantities," said Vicky Kelly, who manages environmental monitoring for the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies.
Breeding wolves were killed off in New York back in the 1890s. But hearing nighttime howling today should not be blamed on our imaginations. Another predator, the eastern coyote (Canis latrans), abounds in our area and provides a similar hair-raising effect when we hear it calling.
Dengue fever and chikungunya are transmitted to humans by two species of mosquitos, Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus. There are no vaccines for these viral diseases and while not often fatal, they can disable victims with painful symptoms for weeks or months.
With cities across the United States facing one of the most brutal winters in recent memory, the use of road salt can be an economic game changer, one that forces snowy cities to be innovators that balance safety, cost and the environment.
In the northeastern United States, warmer spring temperatures are leading to shifts in the emergence of the blacklegged ticks that carry Lyme disease and other tick-borne pathogens. At the same time, milder weather is allowing ticks to spread into new geographic regions.
This frigid, snowy winter may be keeping many people indoors, but is likely doing little to kill slumbering hordes of ticks that can carry Lyme disease.
Cary's head of education Alan Berkowitz explains why undergraduate research programs are so valuable-both for the students, who gain research experience, and the scientists, whose scientific thinking can benefit from the mentoring experience.
Although western Lake Erie has become an international poster child for noxious algae, a new study suggests that many of the world's much smaller, cleaner, and calmer bodies of water are likewise in trouble if greater efforts are not undertaken to keep farm fertilizers and other nutrients out of them.
Familiar to the snowy landscape are salt trucks slowly crawling up and down the interstates and city streets sprinkling salt (which is only effective in temperatures above 15 degrees), or salt-brine over the roads.
Officials across the country are scrambling to get enough road salt this year, after last winter's brutal weather largely cleaned out stockpiles.
Find out what you can do as a homeowner to ensure you are not overusing road salt which can damage metal and concrete, contaminate drinking water, and harm aquatic plants and animals.
This past summer Cary's Steward Pickett was a Visiting International Professor at the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences in Beijing. The center is part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and home to the State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology.
By the late 1960s, America's fresh waters were in crisis. Rivers were catching fire, unsafe E.coli levels were common, and Time Magazine declared Lake Erie dead.
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Massachusetts enjoys a rich heritage of outstanding theaters, and the tradition continues today.
Visit Cape Cod and take in America's oldest professional summer theater — the Cape Playhouse in Dennis. For a big-city theater fix, the American Repertory Theatre (ART) in Cambridge is a nationally acclaimed company, and Boston University's Huntington Theater is a professional theater featuring comedies and classics in two of the city's best theater spaces.
See the stars live on stage at Barrington Stage Company, where new works and old favorites are performed in Western Massachusetts. North of Boston, catch works from emerging playwrights at the Gloucester Stage Company. The Bard lives on in Western Massachusetts at Shakespeare and Company.
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Lander University Upgrades Digital Media Studio with Blackmagic Design
Lander University may be a small university in Greenwood, SC, but what it lacks in size it makes up for in passion. Like every other university in the country, Lander's faculty and staff want to equip students to be outstanding in their fields. Thanks in part to Assistant Professor of digital media Cory Carpenter, students in the Mass Communications and Media Studies program are doing just that. In his two year tenure working at Lander, Cory pushed for an upgrade for the digital media studio's outdated equipment, and the program's 125 students now learn about television production using three Blackmagic Studio Cameras HD, an ATEM 1 M/E Production Studio 4K switcher, a Smart Videohub 16x16 router, one HyperDeck Studio Pro and a SmartScope Duo 4K.
Joining the Digital Revolution
When Cory first walked into the studio in 2015, he noticed an old production switcher and lots of SD equipment. As he began to teach students, he realized that they did not have a very thorough grasp of the equipment and production technologies, and that they were not being prepared for the future by learning on such outdated products. After researching numerous products on the market, Cory began to pursue an upgrade that involved several Blackmagic Design products for the Lander University studio.
"We needed a complete revolution and to jump forward into the digital age," said Cory. "The first thing we needed to address was the equipment issue. It's hard to work on equipment that is just not capable. I had used several Blackmagic Design cameras previously, and found them to be very powerful, yet approachable and easy to use. The UI is easy to grasp well and be proficient at it in a very short time. Learning curve is a very big factor here. I also did a lot of research on the ATEM. It was perfect timing with our needs and the products that Blackmagic Design was coming out with."
The school purchased three Blackmagic Studio Cameras HD, which are positioned out on the floor of the studio, with a fourth camera floating on a jib. The cameras are fed into the ATEM 1 M/E Production Studio 4K, which is controlled through an iMac. A second iMac is piped in through the HDMI port on the ATEM to feed graphics and streaming content. From the ATEM, the HyperDeck Studio Pro is used to record the final show program out. One of the auxiliary outputs goes to the set to run background or logos, and another auxiliary output goes out to floor monitors and SmartScope Duo 4K for preview and program. Everything also runs through the Smart Videohub 16x16 which pushes feeds around the studio as needed.
A Balance of Function and Accessibility
Students in the program range from zero experience all the way up to the Senior level who have a good grasp of switching and multi camera productions. According to Cory, students across the board have had a phenomenal experience using the Blackmagic Design products and for the first time they are experiencing a production workflow that actually helps them achieve their vision.
"So far the accessibility and learning curve are proving to be spot on," said Cory. "Within two or three sessions the students are feeling comfortable enough to move through the system, to begin switching shows, and they are excited about what the products can do. We haven't even begun to scratch the surface with some of the capabilities, but they are there and the students get excited to understand the new concepts."
He continued, "For what we do at Lander, the products are perfectly scaled. They are not overly technical and hard to understand, but are technical enough to stretch or scale accordingly for different productions. I think that's why this is such a great product lineup. The students can understand them and use them, but they don't have to worry about getting caught up in it. It's just the right balance of function and accessibility."
Less Familiarizing and More Efficiency
Cory said that for students to be prepared for jobs in the real world, they must have a certain technical prowess and be able to adapt to the ever evolving and accelerating digital workflow. Being stuck using outdated equipment that required an extensive learning curve made it nearly impossible to apply the fundamental principles of storytelling, visual design, and communication. Frustration built up in both faculty and students when it took too much time to familiarize themselves with the equipment and they could not spend enough time creating content.
For example, it used to take students in the Advanced TV class a full three months to understand the nuances of the outdated products and be able to operate them with any semblance of efficiency. Today, each team of students in the class has 40 minutes of dedicated time in the studio per week and for many of them, it is their first time in a studio environment. They are challenged to produce seven as-live, original shows in one semester.
"Over the course of two weeks, or approximately 80 minutes total, these groups have gone from absolute zero to near completion of an entire practice show," said Cory. "It will take more time for them to become really fluent, but all things being equal: three months to 80 minutes is an amazing difference, and their energy and confidence is palpable."
Cory summed up his experience thus far by saying, "Lander often gets overlooked because of its size and location, and thus it doesn't get the same kind of attention as bigger schools. But that's OK. I tell everyone that Lander is like a private, state university. It's a very intimate place. I know my student's names, their career goals, and a little about their personal lives. It is the kind of environment that is designed for personal excellence. However, this familiarity makes it that much harder when I can't give them what they deserve because of a lack of resources. So it is difficult to adequately summarize the remarkable effect Blackmagic has had on our department and our student body. We went with Blackmagic for our studio because I believe they understand the balance of quality, creative control, and simplicity in their product design. I want to change lives, I am doing that at Lander, and Blackmagic Design has enabled me achieve my goal faster and better. My hope for my students' future is brimming."
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Monday, October 25, 2010
katezilla: staying positive
They took our $1000 and regurgitated the history of Kate that we had given them. They told us things we wanted to hear. They said she was not autistic and that she didn't have PDD (pervasive development disorder)...it was great to hear that. But with some time to reflect we've come to believe it was a bit of a scam. I do believe the Center does good things for other people, but not us. Not Kate.
The result of that visit was behavioral, (more) occupational, and of course speech therapy. I can't say we've seen much improvement.
That's a difficult thing to say, but for me, it hit home this weekend. Kate, at times, is on the verge of unmanageable. Kris has known this for some time...of course. I don't think I was ignoring anything, I just never saw it the way she did. I'm not convinced things are moving in the right direction.
Don't get me wrong...I love this little girl more than I ever thought possible. I do have to face a reality...at some point in time.
Jaded. Hurt. Confused. Sad. Depressed.
I'm sure I could think of a million words to describe our collective mindset.
I've tried to be the optimist. Always the optimist. If you know me, you'll know that is just who I am.
It's just getting harder and harder to do.
We will not go into tomorrow's evaluation as blindly as we did the first. We may go in with a giant chip on our shoulder. Who knows?
Both of us just want, some sort of answer.
There is someone home in the tiny little body, we just need to figure out how to access it.
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- Aman.... said...
Stay strong my friend! Life is putting tests after tests in front of you and I am sure, as you said that you are always an optimist, a ray of hope, would surely be visible in this dark too!
My prayers are with you and entire family! Stay strong!
- October 25, 2010 at 2:47 AM
- Noons said...
How old is Kate now?
- October 25, 2010 at 2:53 AM
Send her to AUNT VAL!!!
And yes, SHE IS IN THERE...
- October 25, 2010 at 8:59 AM
- Kellyn said...
Having children is agreeing to have your heart on the outside of your body for the rest of your life. Somedays you want to encase yourself in full armor to take on the world..
Here's sending some armor your way, Chet!
- October 25, 2010 at 11:24 AM
- Bradd Piontek said...
Hang in there and stay positive. I know I have difficulty shielding my natural cynicism and perceived negativity in these types of situations, which usually makes them worse.
Keep fighting the good fight, exhaust all options, and if you get to the end of your rope, lean on your support group. (Family, Friends, Cynical Twitter Twats who you've met in person, whatever)
I wish I had done a lot of those things in previous trials and tribulations in my family life (so either I'm a hypocrite or I'm learning from my mistakes. You decide).
- October 25, 2010 at 2:05 PM
- oraclenerd said...
As usual, you are correct. Thank you so much for you (continued) support.
- October 25, 2010 at 11:57 PM
- oraclenerd said...
Kate will be 6 in December, just 2 months away. I think we've just realized that it has been that long...we thought she would progress, and we just haven't seen much.
- October 25, 2010 at 11:58 PM
- oraclenerd said...
I haven't had a chance to tell you yet, but we have found MFP Part II, just last week in fact.
I'll drop you a line and fill you in on the details...she is frighteningly similar to you, in just about every possible way. ;)
- October 26, 2010 at 12:00 AM
- oraclenerd said...
armor, yes, as long as it is of the kevlar variety!
Yeah, these little boogers have wormed their way into our hearts, the good and the bad. I'm still waiting for my manual on raising children...if you have an extra copy lying around, please send that along with the kevlar my way. :)
- October 26, 2010 at 12:01 AM
- oraclenerd said...
Thanks much sir. I usually leave the cynicism up to the lovely wife, she pulls it off so well. But it has crept into my life as well.
I consider myself lucky to have this extended family who provides so much support, even the twitter twats. :) (Kris will love that one!)
Meat bag Chet (and Kris) feels fairly isolated, where the virtual friends have provided so much, even in just words of encouragement.
I know it's not for everyone, to share these kinds of details, but it has helped us and given us a much kinder view of humanity.
- October 26, 2010 at 12:06 AM
- Noons said...
6, eh? Hmmm, if you have Facebook access send me an email and I'll share with you a link to a bit of my son's history. Might give you both an upper, who knows?
Yeah, I agree entirely: where is the user's manual for being a parent?
We train kids to solve multi-variable polynomials and be fluent with quantum theory, yet in the entire time they are in school we teach them nothing, zippo, nada about being parents, balancing a family budget and raising children!
If that is not a clear indication that our entire educational system is a failure, I don't know what is...
- October 26, 2010 at 12:48 AM
I'm praying for you and your family. Don't be afraid. God will show a way, but it may be hard to recognize. And as a parent who has had his really hard parenting experiences, I can tell you you can get through it, even if you feel you have died repeatedly along the way.
- October 27, 2010 at 8:20 AM


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"For the Starns, the six-sided nature of snow crystals appears less important than the ways in which the flakes hover between one state and another. As they are being photographed, they are in a process of alteration from solid to liquid, from organized form in space to aqueous blob on a surface, and thus suggest a transitiveness that photography, as a medium devoted to stilling the moment, would seem to contradict. Similarly, as was true of the pictures of leaf veins and tree branches, light seems not so much to shine on the snowflakes as it shines through them. Instead of appearing as specimens, in the manner of 19th-century scientific observation, the snowflakes are objects of transformation. Few of the Starns' snowflakes are models of perfection, and in this they remind one of finding starfish and seashells scoured by the tides and left to dry on sandy beaches. Many have parts missing, or they have all their detailed armatures on one side but not the other. Here again, the Starns' images exceed the aesthetic register of the catalog. Unlike industrial structures, or manmade devices, imperfection is an essential part of their beauty and poignancy. Here is material evidence of the Starns' interest in the phenomenological character of the natural world, cast into being against the certitude of our own impermanence. The photographs speak of the fragile delicacy of our ever-warming world while being themselves a visual bulwark against despair, and they draw us, like moths to light, to the pleasures of sight that but for the camera would exceed the human eye." Excerpt from Andy Grundberg's introduction in alleverythingthatisyou (catalogue published by the Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden 2007)
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Doug and Mike Starn, American artists, identical twins, born 1961. First having received international attention at the 1987 Whitney Biennial, for more than 20 years the Starns were primarily known for working conceptually with photography, and are concerned largely with chaos, interconnection and interdependence. Over the past two and half decades, they have continued to defy categorization, effectively combining traditionally separate disciplines such as photography, sculpture, architecture-most notably their series Big Bambú.
The Starns just completed the installation of (Any) Body Oddly Propped on the plaza of the Princeton Art Museum. The installation is in an overwhelming scale, and like their Big Bambú habitable artworks a sculpture that one walks through. The viewer becomes enveloped by the colors, the light and shadows. The carbon steel framing is a great contrast, while the brothers made expressive use of the old stain glass technique of hand painting with black carbon to create chiaroscuro; the darks have the effect of making the light/color seem more intense. The panels have a rustic character, this is glass that works with its hands for a living…
The 5th institutional installment of Big Bambú took place at the Israel Museum of Jerusalem (inaugurated in June 2014), featuring an outdoor installation with a permanent element titled The Strange Loop You Are, and another one, ephemeral, exhibited over 9 months. Commissioned for Soichiro Fukutake's Naoshima Museum (July 2013-present) for the Setouchi Triennial on the small island of Teshima-Japan-, the forth public installment in the Big Bambú series (titled Big Bambú #8, being the eighth incarnation in the series) utilizes and comprises an entire bamboo forest is created from several hundred living poles in the rhizomatic root of this ecosystem (new poles sprout daily, encroaching the elevated pathway). A beautiful path through the forest ultimately leads to a Bambú walkway tied with climber's cord directly to the living stalks and winds its way up through the forest, higher and higher, until ultimately breaking through the surface of the canopy of bamboo leaves. Only the visitor's upper body emerges and the elevated pathway face the Starns' vision of a large fishing boat- over 60' long-but made entirely of Bambú - floating on the canopy sea of bamboo leaves at over 60 feet high. The visitors (8 to 10 at a time) approach the boat on the path as if swimming through the canopy, then climb aboard the boat. Entering the cabin of the boat- they descend below deck into the hull to see the interdependent structure creating the being of the boat, a catwalk through the crawl space inside the hull leads them to the bow to the observation bubble which was thought up in a dream actually.
Curated by Francesco Bonami, the first semi-permanent Big Bambú Minotaur Horn Head installation was on view for 3 years, as part of the collection of the Museo MACRO Testaccio, Rome. Over 40 meters tall, a habitable sculpture enveloping up to 60 people within an elevated performance space, double helix stair and labyrinth paths leading up to over 20 meters high to multiple lounging spaces giving views over the banks of the Tiber and Trastevere to Monte Testaccio. In 2011 at the 54th Venice Biennale Big Bambú spiraled over 22 meters high behind the Peggy Guggenheim Collection on the Grand Canal. The acclaimed institutional premiere Big Bambú: You Can't, You Don't, and You Won't Stop, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2010 was the 9th most attended exhibition in the museum's history with 3,913 visitors per day- with a total of 631,000. Throughout the 6-month exhibit, the Starns and their crew of 12 rock climbers continuously lashed together over 7,000 bamboo poles, a performative architecture of randomly interconnected vectors forming a section of a seascape with a 20-meter cresting wave above Central Park. Big Bambú suggests the complexity and energy of an ever-growing and changing living organism. Several new iterations of the series are being developed internationally.
Gravity of Light, a solo exhibition by the Starn brothers featuring eight monumental photographs illuminated by a single, blindingly bright carbon arc lamp, originally commissioned by the Färgfabriken Kunsthalle, Stockholm, Sweden, took its third incarnation with the Cincinnati Art Museum in the fall of 2012 at a cavernous deconsecrated church and was dovetailed by an eponymous monograph, which offers a comprehensive approach on the artists' Absorption of Light concept, published by Rizzoli, 2012.
In the spring of 2009, the Starns completed their first permanently installed public commission for the New York City Metropolitan Transit Authority. See it split, see it change, a 250-foot long artwork, up to 14 feet in height, presents the artists' iconic tree photographs and a leaf transposed into fused glass, marble mosaics and a water jet cut stainless steel fence punctuate the South Ferry subway terminal. It is the recipient of the 2009 Brendan Gill Prize.
At their mammoth laboratory studio in Beacon, New York, the former Tallix foundry, the Starns continue to build the first Big Bambú, a constantly evolving construction, formed by a network of more than 2,500 bamboo poles lashed together. This enormous studio allows Doug and Mike to work in dialogue between Big Bambú and their many concurrent series: most recently The No Mind Not Thinks No Things and other Buddhist explorations- the Absorption of Light concept, alleverythingthatisyou- their photomicrographs of snow crystals, and their re-exploration of the late 19th century color carbon printing process. Through their carbon-prints, the Starns mingle gilding techniques to the painterly photo-process, and further advance their metaphorical lexicon on light with photographs of Buddhist statuary.
Attracted to Light, To Find God, not the Devil's Insides and alleverythingthatisyou are some of the Starns' monographic publications. The brothers are currently preparing a new artist book based on their iconic photograph of Ganjin and Big Bambú.
The Starns were represented by Leo Castelli from 1989 until his death in 1999. Their art has been the object of numerous solo and group exhibitions in museums and galleries worldwide. The Starns have received many honors including two National Endowment for the Arts Grants in 1987 and 1995; The International Center for Photography's Infinity Award for Fine Art Photography in 1992; and, artists in residency at NASA in the mid-nineties. They have received critical acclaim in The New York Times, Dagens Nyheter, Corriere della Sera, Le Figaro, The Times (London), Art in America, and Artforum amongst many other notable media. Major artworks by the Starns are represented in public and private collections including: The Museum of Modern Art (NYC); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SF); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, (NYC); The Jewish Museum, (NYC); The Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC); Moderna Museet (Stockholm); The National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne); Whitney Museum of American Art (NYC); Yokohama Museum of Art (Japan); La Bibliotèque Nationale (Paris); La Maison Européenne de la Photographie (Paris); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, amongst many others.
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Image of slave in chains, pleading for mercy
And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God."
–Abraham Lincoln, The Emancipation Proclamation Jan. 1, 1863
While the Civil War began as a war to restore the Union, not to end slavery, by 1862 President Abraham Lincoln came to believe that he could save the Union only by broadening the goals of the war. The Emancipation Proclamation is generally regarded as marking this sharp change in the goals of Lincoln's war policy. Under his authority as the Commander in Chief, President Lincoln proclaimed the emancipation, or freeing, of the enslaved African Americans living in the states of the Confederacy which were in rebellion.
The Proclamation was, in the words of Frederick Douglass, "the first step on the part of the nation in its departure from the thralldom of the ages." Through examination of the original document, related writings of Lincoln as well as little known first person accounts of African Americans during the war, students can return to this "first step" and explore the obstacles and alternatives we faced in making the journey toward "a more perfect Union."
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President Abraham Lincoln and the Northern States entered the Civil War to preserve the Union rather than to free the slaves, but within a relatively short time emancipation became a necessary war aim. Yet neither Congress nor the president knew exactly what constitutional powers they had in this area; according to the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Roger Brooks Taney, they had none. Lincoln believed that the Constitution gave the Union whatever powers it needed to preserve itself, and that he, as commander-in-chief in a time of war, had the authority to use those powers.
Between March and July of 1862, Lincoln advocated compensated emancipation of slaves living in the "border states", i.e., slave states of Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri which remained loyal to the Union. He also endorsed colonization of freed slaves to foreign lands. But by July 1862, the Union war efforts in Virginia were going badly and pressure was growing to remove the Union commander, General George B. McClellan. Mr. Lincoln decided that emancipation of slaves in areas in rebellion was militarily necessary to put an end to secession and was constitutionally justified by his powers as commander in chief.
Members of Abraham Lincoln's cabinet gathered at the White House on July 22, 1862, to hear the president read his draft of the Emancipation Proclamation. Written by Lincoln alone, without consultation from his cabinet, the proclamation declared that all persons held as slaves in states that were still in rebellion on January 1, 1863, "shall be then, thenceforward, and forever, free."
In September 22 1862, after the Union's victory at Antietam, Lincoln met with his cabinet to refine his July draft and announce what is now known as the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. In this document, he issued an ultimatum to the seceded states: Return to the Union by New Year's Day or freedom will be extended to all slaves within your borders.
The decree also left room for a plan of compensated emancipation. No Confederate states took the offer, and on January 1 Lincoln presented the Emancipation Proclamation. At one stroke, Lincoln declared that over 3 million African American slaves "henceforward shall be free," that the "military and naval authorities" would now "recognize and maintain" that freedom, and that these newly freed slaves would "be received into the armed service of the United States" in order to make war on their former masters. This allowed black soldiers to fight for the Union -- soldiers that were desperately needed. It also tied the issue of slavery directly to the war. By the end of the war, almost 200,000 black soldiers and sailors had fought for the Union and freedom.
It is important to remember that the Emancipation Proclamation did not free all slaves in the United States. Rather, it declared free only those slaves living in states not under Union control. William Seward, Lincoln's secretary of state, commented, "We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them and holding them in bondage where we can set them free." Lincoln was fully aware of the irony, but he did not want to antagonize the "border states" by setting their slaves free.
Intended both as a war and propaganda measure, the Emancipation Proclamation initially had far more symbolic than real impact, because the federal government had no means to enforce it at the time. But the document clearly and irrevocably notified the South and the world that the war was being fought not just to preserve the Union, but to put an end to the "peculiar institution." Eventually, as Union armies occupied more and more southern territory, the Proclamation turned into reality, as thousands of slaves were set free by the advancing federal troops.
The proclamation set a national course toward the final abolition of slavery in the United States. No one appreciated better than Lincoln that to make good on the Emancipation Proclamation was dependent on a Union victory. No one was more anxious than Lincoln to take the necessary additional steps to bring about actual freedom. Thus, he proposed that the Republican Party include in its 1864 platform a plank calling for the abolition of slavery by constitutional amendment. The passage of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution on December 18, 1865 declared slavery illegal in every part of the newly restored Union.
The Emancipation Proclamation was, in the words of Professor Allen Guelzo, "the single most far-reaching, even revolutionary, act of any American president." Lincoln rated the Proclamation as the greatest of his accomplishments: "It is the central act of my administration and the great event of the nineteenth century."
Note: This activity is available as a Launchad.
Begin by having students do a careful reading of both the brief description of The Emancipation Proclamation and the text itself available at the National Archives and Records Administration. Have students identify the main features of Proclamation by answering these questions of the document:
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Have students organize research teams to investigate the steps that led to the Emancipation Proclamation. In order for students to understand how President Lincoln's war plans changed in the course of the war, have them read the short discussion of President Lincoln's Emancipation Policies. This section includes a timeline, newspaper editorials and cartoons illustrating the issues surrounding emancipation. Call attention to the passages from the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation of 1862 included in the final document. Have student research teams prepare class reports on this preliminary proclamation and other documents that record Lincoln's deliberations on the issue of emancipation. Students will be able to search for terms such as "emancipation" throughout the Lincoln writings online in The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln available via the EDSITEment-reviewed American Memory.
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An important perspective on emancipation is that of African Americans on both sides of the battle lines. For insight into the attitudes of this segment of the population, direct students to the documents in Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War which is part of the EDSITEment reviewed Freedmen and Southern Society Project. Ask students to read the letter from the Mother of a Northern Black Soldier to the President, July 31, 1863 and consider the following questions:
Next have students read the letter of a Massachusetts Black Corporal to the President, September 28, 1863 written by Corporal James H. Gooding of the 54th Massachusetts Colored Infantry (the troops celebrated in the film Glory), which complains to Lincoln of unequal pay for white and African American soldiers and consider these questions:
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